Check for looms



May. 20 1924. 1,494,992 w. F. CLAYTON CHECK FOR LOOMS Filed oct. 11, 1922 10 n@ 4 ff www 1 ff iummgymvmmru IIINNHIWHIMII I will [Hl gn/vento@ rIVI/57a. Z7 fa/012 WIN Paented May 2o, 1924.

UNITED STATES WILLIAM FRANKLIN CLAYTON, OF HUNTSV'ILLE, ALABAMA.

CHECK FOR LOOMS.

Application led October 11, 1922i Serial No. 593,776.

To all whom t 'may concern.'

Be it known that I, WILLIAM F. CLAYTON,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Huntsville, in the county of Madison and State of Alabama, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Checks for Looms; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to checks for looms and the object is to provide a device of the character indicated of an improved and simpliied structure lending itself to easy adjustment. A further object is to provide an improved tension device for such a structure.

The invention consists in novel construction arrangement and combinations of parts as hereinafter more particularly described and claimed. j

One sheet of drawings accompanies this specification as part thereof, in which like reference characters indicate similar parts throughout.

Figure 1 is a plan view of an improved loom check;

Fig. 2 is atop view showing the bracket in section and taken on line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 1, and p Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view taken on line 4-4 of Fig. 1.

In accordance with my present invention, a bracket 1 is provided, having a shoulder 3 and an orice 2 by means of which it can be secured with a bolt to the side of the loom lay (not shown). The bracket is further provided with a depending tab 4 adapted to support a slide 5 carrying laterally extending checks 6 adjacent each end. These checks may be made of leather, libre, or other suitable material adapted not to injure the picker stick which is designed to operate between them. The checks 6 are adjustably secured as by, bolts 7 passing through longitudinally extending slots 8 provided in the slide 5.

A culi:1 9 of suitable metal is provided,

being substantially ofU-shape in transverse section and adapted to receive and guide the slide 5, as iswell illustrated in Fig. 4. The side members 10 of the cuff 9 are cut away to receive the tab 4 of bracket 1 and a tension plate 11 is provided to seat between the 55 side members 10 of the cuil' 9 and over the slide as indicated in Fig. 4.

A longitudinal slot 19 is provided in the slide 5 between the check members 6 and a bolt `152. passes through the base of'cu 9, 60 slot 19 of the slide, the tension plate 11 and tab 4 of the bracket to secure said parts. A second` bolt 13 passes through cuff 9, slot 19 and tension plate 11, this bolt being provided with a longitudinal slot 14 and a nut 15 hav- 65 ing a diametrically disposed hole adapted to receive a cotter or other suitable pin 16. A compression spring 17 is positioned between tension plate 11 and nut 15 and the tension .of this spring upon the tension plate can 7o be readily adjustedby means of Vnut 15 and secured at this tension by -means of the cotter pin co-acting with the slot 14. To evenly distribute the tension of spring 17 upon tension plate 11, an adjustment screw l18 is prol5 vided threaded through tab 4 of the bracket and operative upon the opposite end of tension plate 11 as illustrated in Fig. 3.

Stop members 20 may be secured upon the face of slide 5 adjacent stops 6 adapted to 80 co-act with the ends of cuff 9 so that the bolts 12-13 will not be brought in contact with the ends of slot 19.

It will be noted that, with the structure thus described, a uniform tension is exerted upon the slide, member 5 and that this tension may be varied as desired. If necessary, reinforcing means may beused in connection with stops 6 but it is believed that they can be adjustabl secured with sucient rigidity by the bolts as illustrated.

Having Vthus fully described my invention,.I claim 1. In a device of the character described,

a bracket, a cuE of U-shaped cross section, means for removably securing the cuff to the bracket, a tension plate adapted to be seated within the cuff to form therewith an en- Y pendently of the bracket to force the tenmeans for adjusting the tension plate with respect to the bracket and tension means for forcing the tension plate independently of l0 the bracket into the cuff.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

closed slideway, a slide operable Within said slideway, and tension means operating indesion plate and culi against the slide.

2. In a device of the character described,

a bracket, a cuff of U-shaped cross section, a tension plate positioned Within the cu, WILLIAM FRANKLIN CLAYTON.V 

